Archaeologists had cataloged what they believed was every moai statue on Easter Island, a tally approaching 1,000 figures ...
A hidden statue has been revealed in the dried bed of a lake on Rapa Nui, surprising researchers who thought the island’s statues were fully documented. More than 1,000 moai have been located and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using 3D modeling and field experiments, researchers led by Binghamton University archaeologist Carl Lipo have verified that the ...
Rapa Nui, 2,200 miles west of the mainland, is as rugged as it is remote — and an exploration offers blustery hikes, volcanic craters and villages of rock-hewn moai.
“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...